Re: 7 vs 8.1

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

Well, this is an interesting concept. I now dual boot into either Win 7
-64bit or Win 7 -32bit. But maybe it would be preferable to make the Win 7
32 into a VM *within* the 64 bit machine. One benefit I can think of is
that I could then backup *the entire VM* which is usually in just one file,
by a simple copy operation.


But I wonder if there would be a speed degredation (I have an SSD and an i5
processor).


And if I could get my head around it, I think I could clone a bootable
version of either machine by doing it from inside the other. (What I do now
is use an external drive duplicator, but that requires removing the SSD
from the machine and placing in the "toaster" (duplicator). Not onerous,
because I have a Lenovo laptop with a port replicator, so it's physically
quite simple.


Anyone tried running W7 within W7 in this way?


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> Bill and Jordan,
>
> I very much agree with Jordan. For doing effortless virtualizing, you
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> Overview:
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>
> Best regards,
>
> Kari Eveli
> LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
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> 8.8.2015, 20:03, J R FOX wrote:
> > I really don't want to disagree with Kari, who provides us with so much
> > good info here, but my take is that it depends. You might need an
> > unusually powerful laptop to do a VM well. VMs do impose enough of an
> > overhead to noticeably degrade performance. Routine operations will slow
> > down. The rule of thumb for avoiding or minimizing this used to be at
> > least 8 Gigs of RAM and a fast processor. (A 5400 speed HDD on a laptop
> > won't cut it, either.) However, I'm hearing that some of today's laptops
> > have gone over to SSDs, rather than the older style laptop hardrives
> > ? That should help. If your laptop is not up to the challenge, Win 8.1
> > might indeed be the more appropriate answer **for you. **
> >
> >
> >   Jordan